by DJ Neawedde | 18th July 2007
J.K. Rowling is going to be livid. The latest, and last, Harry Potter book has been pirated and released for download. Unfortunately though, if you want to read it you’re going to have to download hundreds of high definition image files because it has been photographed and not scanned and OCR’d. The torrent is available on The Pirate Bay.
Whoever did this should probably be panicking right now. Some furniture and a hand are visible in the pictures, and whilst that’s not a lot to go on you can bet that the publisher is going to want to pursue this. They reportedly spent $20 million trying to keep the book under wraps, so it seems unlikely that they would just drop the matter now that it’s leaked.
Nobody needs an angry billionaire, 3 teenage wizards and some copyright lawyers chasing them over a crime that they didn’t even profit from.
Disclaimer: Of course, MoT doesn’t condone piracy. It’s naughty.
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by DJ Neawedde | 18th July 2007
J.K. Rowling is going to be livid. The latest, and last, Harry Potter book has been pirated and released for download. Unfortunately though, if you want to read it you’re going to have to download hundreds of high definition image files because it has been photographed and not scanned and OCR’d. The torrent is available on The Pirate Bay.
Whoever did this should probably be panicking right now. Some furniture and a hand are visible in the pictures, and whilst that’s not a lot to go on you can bet that the publisher is going to want to pursue this. They reportedly spent $20 million trying to keep the book under wraps, so it seems unlikely that they would just drop the matter now that it’s leaked.
Nobody needs an angry billionaire, 3 teenage wizards and some copyright lawyers chasing them over a crime that they didn’t even profit from.
Disclaimer: Of course, MoT doesn’t condone piracy. It’s naughty.
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Yeah but what has this got to do with technology??? com’on guys at MoT… wake up and stop spamming………..
July 18th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Technology allowed this person to do this, it’s available on a torrent site for the masses, also not possible without technology. Not sure what your definition of “technology” is, maybe your definition is limited to Nokia phones and MacBooks.
P.S. - I don’t see any evidence of us spamming
July 18th, 2007 at 9:47 am
As I understand it, there may be some metadata on the original images that could be linked back to the source too.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:45 pm